THE ARTIST HAS WITHDRAWN THE FILM IN SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKE GERMANY

1947 London was a hub of radical anti-colonial activity. International intellectuals, artists, and activists like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Sylvia Wynter, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, and George Padmore were all in London at the eve of the end of British colonialism. Individually, they were agitating for their respective countries’ national independence, but did they meet? And if they all did, what did they discuss? What did they conjure? A Radical Duet is a dual-timeline experimental film imagining what happened in the 1940s when two women of different generations, but both fighting for independence, came together in London to put their fervour and imagination into writing a revolutionary play and what that play would look like if staged in the present.

• Programm Programme: International Competition 6